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// Module included in the following assemblies:
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// * security/zero_trust_workload_identity_manageer/zero-trust-manager-overview.adoc
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= SPIFFE
{spiffe-full} provides a standardized way to establish trust between software workloads in distributed systems. SPIFFE assigns unique IDs called SPIFFE IDs. These IDs are Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) that include a trust domain and a workload identifier.
The SPIFFE IDs are contained in the {svid-full}. SVIDs are used by workloads to verify their identity to other workloads so that the workloads can communicate with each other. The two main SVID formats are:
* X.509-SVIDs: X.509 certificates where the SPIFFE ID is embedded in the Subject Alternative Name (SAN) field.
* JWT-SVIDs: JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) where the SPIFFE ID is included as the `sub` claim.
For more information, see link:https://spiffe.io/docs/latest/spiffe-about/overview/[SPIFFE Overview].